Re: pg_ctl

Communicated.

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

>
> I briefly reviewed the alpha version of this that Joshua posted a URL
> to (after converting all the c++ style comments and running through
> pgindent so I could read it).
>
> I endorse Neil's and Bruce's comments. In addition, I noticed these
> things:
>
> . on Win32 a start op is guaranteed to hang unless I'm misreading the
> code, as it is not backgrounded. Calling system() won't work here - I
> think we'll have to call CreateProcess() on Win32.
> . what about devnull processing on Win32?
> . multi-line literals are apparently illegal (see recent hackers
> thread?) and rejected by some compilers - use the fact that the
> compiler will concatentate adjacent string literals.
> . there is a lot of incorrect code that tries to do things that are
> already done correctly and portably in initdb.c - e.g. finding the
> postmaster executable.
> . calling fopen() to check existence of a file is, er, suboptimal. Use
> stat().
> . no error checking on malloc() calls
> . calling free() on these tiny strings is quite unnecessary - the
> program should use minimal memory and have a very short life span.
> It's just useless clutter IMNSHO.
>
> This isn't an exhaustive list.
>
> I suspect this work is actually a bit premature, and would best be
> done after we have a working Win32 postmaster. After all, you can
> happily run postgres without ever calling pg_ctl - it's a convenience
> rather than an absolute necessity (unlike initdb). On Windows,
> production users probably wouldn't use it at all - they would use the
> service manager, I should think.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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